Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming.
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
Chronichles the story of the Forty-seven Ronin.
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
A touching true story which portrays a doctor who selflessly dedicated his personal fortune to sprea...
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds c...
Inomatsu, a carpenter with a reputation as a skilled craftsman, has a wife named Oritsu. Oritsu is d...
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...
Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...
"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, fas...
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...
A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...